Today is my day off after eight days of working! Since I'm taking some days off at the end of the month for the Mormon History Association conference, I have to put in a little extra time during the month. It's nice though, because I like being a park ranger so much that it doesn't bother me to work eight days in a row. Days off are nice too though. I enjoyed sleeping in this morning and watching TV while I ate breakfast. I'm at the coffee shop again today--this time having lunch--and using the internet. Hopefully by the end of this week my modem will come in the mail so that I can use the internet back at the house. I'm eating a delicious turkey and rosemary panini. They do have really good food here. Something kind of funny happened here at the coffee shop though. You see, yesterday when I was drinking what was supposed to be my non-coffee vanilla bean drink, I kept thinking, "This doesn't taste quite right." So, I asked the guy who made it if he had accidentally given me the vanilla coffee drink. He said, "No, that's the non-coffee vanilla bean." I thought maybe they had just changed how they made them or something. Anyway, today when I came here, the same guy was working and he said, "Hey, you know the drink you ordered yesterday? Well, someone had switched the vanilla bean mix and the vanilla coffee mix, so it really was a vanilla coffee drink." Yikes! Is it bad to drink coffee if you unknowingly do so? Maybe that's why I didn't have as hard of a time staying awake at the Johnson House yesterday afternoon as I usually do! I have this Civil War computer game on my laptop which also helped me stay awake. It was a little slow at the WJ house in the afternoon, but I kept myself busy fighting the Battle of Bull Run!
While I was out running errands today, I stopped at the funny Natchez Mall for just a little while. I went into the bookstore (I know--it's dangerous for me to go into bookstores--but I didn't buy anything today!) and there was this entire cookbook about cooking with a turkey fryer . . . only in the South!
The Ratcliffes have been up at their house at some lake for the last week, but they arrived home yesterday, so now things are pretty busy there at Routhland. I now have two guard dogs posted outside of my house--Miss Dixie and Miss Mollie Matisse (they had been at the lake with the family). They are really funny dogs--Dixie is this big, black dog that seems kind of scary until she starts licking you, and Mollie is a tiny little white dog that thinks she owns the place.
After I finish lunch, it's off to the grocery store, then I'll do some laundry, wash the dishes, go running, read, watch TV, and call it a day. Thank you to everyone for your nice phone calls and e-mails--that has really helped me get through my homesickness and enjoy things here! I don't know if I'll have a chance to get online tomorrow, so my next post might not be until Friday--hopefully by that time I can have internet access back at the house!
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